Our card this week is Leah Ulbrich, the three of clubs from Connecticut.

For months now, I've anticipated the release of this episode for a few reasons.

One is because the investigation is still very active and new discoveries were made while

our team was reporting on Leah's case, actual breakthroughs that could lead to her murder

getting solved.

And the second reason is because Leah's family, who has been waiting nearly 30 years

for answers, talked to us for this episode.

And when we're trying to tell someone's story and truly do it justice, nothing compares

to hearing from the people who love them the most.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.

On October 29, 1995, Bill Fleming, a courier for the Hartford Current in Connecticut, was

just finishing his Sunday morning delivery route for the day's newspaper.

It was just after 4.45 am when he saw something that alarmed him.

As Bill was turning into the parking lot of the newspaper's distribution facility in Hartford,

he saw what appeared to be a man and a woman inside a car having a fight.

When he did a double take, he saw the man hitting the woman and he could hear her screaming.

Bill's adrenaline kicked in so he turned his car around ready to intervene.

But as he approached, the car is sped off and Bill could see what appeared to be the man

in the driver's seat shoving the woman out of the car as the car took off down the road

with the passenger door still open.

But the woman hadn't fallen out, she was dangling out of the side of the car.

It was still pretty dark outside before sunrise and Bill couldn't tell if the woman was grasping

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